Friday: Ok, forget it. Just bleed us dry.

We are finally finding out why the banks are sitting on all of the money we gave them last fall.  It turns out that after they sucked the bonuses out of them, it simply wasn’t enough cash for lending.  They are still undercapitalized.  What we *didn’t* know is that banks were getting much of their [...]

Conflucians Say: “Fire!” over Social Security

Well, the Obots can’t say they weren’t warned about Obama.  We told them he wasn’t a liberal.  It looks like he is onboard with tinkering with Social Security.  If I were him and actually *cared* about the economy, I would back away from Social Security reeeeal slllloow like.  It’s not just a retirement fallback, it’s [...]

Don’t worry guys, its natural to objectify women.

I am no scientist, but this kind of thing always makes me just a little bit uncomfortable. It’s as if they’re trying to find an excuse for bad behavior. It may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there’s science to back it up. New research shows that, [...]

Afghanistan: “Obama’s War”

This was the lead story – front-page, above-the-fold-in yesterday’s edition of USA Today: Obama’s war: Deploying 17,000 raises stakes in Afghanistan. I found this striking because almost every other news venue was covering economic issues, devoting attention either to the slightly expanded mortgage-holder relief program that the Obama administration is beginning to push or the [...]

Turdblossom Says Obama Is “Winging It”

Donna Brazile’s BFF may be a despicable human being, but he’s one of the people who tells the media what to think and say.  In today’s WSJ Karl Rove gives us a preview of what is likely to be the media narrative for the next few weeks: Team Obama demonstrated remarkable discipline during the presidential [...]

Thursday: Japan or Sweden?

Planet Money discusses the Swedish model of bank nationalization in its latest podcast.  In 1994, Sweden went through its own financial meltdown.  In some ways, it sounds similar to what is happening here in the US.  The economy heated up and people borrowed and spent like there was no tomorrow.  That short term thinking turned [...]

Buncha Bigots

Eric Holder, America’s first African American Attorney General under America’s first black President, said in a speech to Department of Justice employees celebrating Black History Month, that we are a “nation of cowards“  because we don’t like to talk candidly about race.  This is wrong on so many levels. Any time we still have to [...]

Playing the Race Card?

As we learned last year, any criticism of Barack Obama is racist.  Comparing him to Jesse Jackson is racist, and so is comparing him to Paris Hilton.  Calling his story about his position on Iraq a fairy tale is racist, and so is saying that he used to pal around with a terrorist.  Even using [...]

Whoa! Go Lansing, Michigan!

Virgil Bernero is his name and he is amazing.  He’s the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan.   Listen to him stick up for the working class.  It’s about time someone went on TV and said enough is enough.  Sacrifices need to come from the people who are responsible.  It is time to look up the food [...]

Gay Rights=Civil Rights

On March 5th The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the validity of the voter approved Proposition 8.  Both the Democratic Attorney General and the Republican Governor of the state are in agreement that the ballot measure should be invalidated. On January 15, 2009, 43 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Court to invalidate Prop [...]